Cornell University

Cornell was founded in 1865 by businessman Ezra Cornell[?] and respected scholar Andrew Dickson White, and is not to be confused with Cornell College[?].

Cornell includes thirteen colleges and schools. On the Ithaca campus are the seven undergraduate units and four graduate and professional units. Seven schools make up Cornell University, 4 private schools: Arts and Sciences, Art, Architecture and Planning, Hotel, and Engineering; and 3 State University of New York schools: Agriculture, Human Ecology, and Industrial and Labor relations.

Cornell has 13,300 undergraduates and 6,200 graduate and professional students.

The Johnson Art Museum[?] at Cornell was designed by I. M. Pei. Luminaries who have been associated with Cornell include Carl Sagan and Norman Malcolm[?].

The sports teams are all called "Big Red". They participate in the Ivy League and the ECAC[?].

See also : CORC, Cornell Theory Center

External Link

• Cornell's homepage: http://www.cornell.edu